BAND OF BROTHERS producers Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg re-team to produce this ten-hour World War II miniseries based on the books WITH THE OLD BREED by Eugene Sledge and HELMET FOR MY PILLOW by Robert Leckie. Additional interviews conducted by the filmmakers in collaboration with Hugh Ambrose (son of late BAND OF BROTHERS author Stephen E. Ambrose) detail the arduous odysseys of U.S. Marines Sledge, Leckie, and John Basilone from their first skirmishes in Guadalcanal to their eventual return to American soil following V-J Day.

DVD Features

Region 1 Note: Exclusive features include: Profiles of The Pacific intimate portraits of the real marines featured in The Pacific Making The Pacific 30-minute feature providing an inside look at the making of this epic miniseries Anatomy of the pacific war - historical documentary on the events that influenced the merciless brutality in the Pacific theater